various reasons for non-bloggery 1) Blogger sucks. Man, does it ever suck. I can't even tell you how many times it has frozen up in mid-post, frozen up in mid-publish, refused access entirely, or otherwise eaten and/or prevented productive bloggery. I seriously need to move, but path dependence is a fearsome thing. I'm just sayin.

2) I am just as busy as I was last semester, it's just that I'm not miserable and absolutely losing my mind all the time. But I somehow have EVEN less time this semester to do stuff like blog and watch "America's Next Top Model" on youtube, which seriously bums me out. Things that are keeping me busy include but are not limited to: classes, homework, a minor social life that consists of hanging out with the 2 people in my program I actually think are real people and therefore enjoy hanging out with, preparing papers for upcoming conferences in Vegas and Chicago, listening to Ryan Adams's very, very weird internet music project, and my recent discovery of Kundalini yoga.

3) V-L is, as I have mentioned, having a serious identity crisis. News? Analysis? Screeds about the more pernicious aspects of the Greatest Graduate School in the Whole Wide World? Whatever. And anyway, it probably doesn't matter, since...

4) I have decided that Fidel Castro is totally a robot.

5) Over and out. I want a puppy.  ¶ 1:04 PM